Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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I'm a slow starter.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
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When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
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There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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Management must manage!
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.
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I love acting. Modeling is fun, too, but I feel like there is more room to stretch yourself and open yourself up to new experiences with acting. That's why I got into acting in the first place.
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I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.
